✅ SOLVED Flat Button Found In Farm Field.

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Also is there any way to clean this coin?
 

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Brass 1-piece flatbuttons with an indented-lettering backmark date from approximately 1810 into the 1830s. (Raised-lettering backmarks can date from as early as the 1790s.) They were made for use on civilian coats, jackets, pants-waist closure and pants fly closure... although we know that at least a few did get used on local Militia uniforms when the unit was too poorly funded to afford expensive "insignia buttons." For that reason, they've also been dug in some Confederate encampments and fortifications, but they are NOT Confederate-MADE buttons.

The brass 1-piece buttons fell out of favor with the public in the 1830s, when advances in button-making machinery produced INEXPENSIVE "ornate" 2-piece buttons.
 

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